Fam bam and amigos. get ready. prepare yourselves. go pee if you feel the urge. grab some popcorn. this is gonna be a long one.. and my english skills are diminishing.. so, patience :)
randoms:
all the mother's rooms in churches here are empty... not because there aren't any babies.. but because everyone just feels the need to do their mother's room business right in the middle of relief society or sacrament meeting. quite lovely, actually.
DANIELLE NICOLE MOORE IS MARRIED. am i old enough for this? i swear i think i'm still 18. my friends can't be getting married. gross.
i was in a taxi, chatting with the driver and the front seat passenger and preaching the restored gospel, ya know. and when the passenger gets out, he shakes my hand.. then whispers to the taxi driver.. ''that was the first time i've touched a white girl's hand..'' creepy, but oddly touching.
this week i realized that THREE YEARS AGO i was starting my senior year of high school.... WHAT? that feels like yesterday.
last week in the grocery i was that annoying grandma in the motorized grocery cart... beeping to back up and all. i felt amazingly special.
one of the new hermanas asked me my first name the other day.. i told her Wilsynn.. and she laughs. so i look at my companion and i'm like.. ''she thinks i'm kidding..'' hahaha. LIFE. it's like elementary school all over again when people would ask me my name and all innocently, thinking my name is perfectly normal, i'm like ''Wilsynn:)'' and they're like.. ''no honey.. your first name...'' DUH.
i CANNOT.. or refuse.. to believe that Kels and Mackenzie and Morgan and Syd are alllll home! as in not missionaries. WHAT. i struggle to grasp these facts sometimes.
OH MY LISTEN TO THIS. so we were in a meeting with President the other day, and he starts reading this email.. about how if missionaries get seriously injured now, like surgery or casts.. they have to just go home to heal. EVERYONE turns and looks and me and my face was in shock. and President just goes ''Hermana Wheat, you're blessed. i got this email 2 days after you got your cast on.'' wowwwwwwwww. Heavenly Father loves me. i was in shock! i could have been sent home. but i'm here. and i KNOW there's a reason. :)
sooooooo. you all know i LOVED LOVED LOVED Tezoatega. and it was so hard for me to leave. mostly because of Darling and Noel and Cesar and Noheli and Rodrigo and Darling's parents Clementina and Cristobal. AH. but GUESS WHAT. Darling and her kids GOT BAPTIZED:) and Hermano Noel, got to baptize them. his wife and kids! i wasn't there but AH i was SO HAPPY to see the pictures. the miracle of this story. is that Darling was Catholic. but she didn't struggle changing that.. it was her parents that couldn't give up being Catholic. but my last Sunday in that ward, they went to church! and loved it. and learned about eternal families. and realized that that is something that NO OTHER CHURCH can offer them. and then i left Tezoatega and YESTERDAY (4 weeks later) CLEMENTINA AND CRISTOBAL GOT BAPTIZED. i cried when i saw Hermana Zepeda the other day and she told me they were gonna get baptized. i, wilsynn wheat, legit cried. i have NEVER been so happy in my whole life. missionary work is the happiest thing on earth people. TESTIFY.
so there's that. also. i have to admit, that when i found out i was leaving Tezoatega, i dropped down on my knees and asked Heavenly Father why. not too proud of that question, because WE never need to know why. we should just trust that He has something planned especially for us. AND HE DID. remember Coni and Filadelfo? wow. they are AMAZING. Hermana Coni had a dream, where Jesus came up to her and asked her if she wanted to get to know him. YES CONI, YOU DO. and the gospel and the Book of Mormon help us TRULY get to know our Savior. i know it :)
also. she had this weird experience that i'm not sure what to think of it but here it goes. she said one day she heard Christopher screaming and she went into his room and he was on the floor and the room was so dark and there was some dark shadow over her son? she said she felt frozen and she'd never been so scared in her life, and that she just dropped to her knees and started praying and everything went back to normal. wellllllll some of her friends and family decided to take advantage of that and tell her that it was God punishing her for changing religions. my testimony of our Heavenly Father's love for his children grew SO much in that moment as i told her that God would NEVER EVER do something like that to us. He loves us so much. so so so much! i always knew it. but the spirit was so strong when i told her that, that i feel like it is something i will never forget. HEAVENLY FATHER LIVES AND LOVES US:) i know it. without a single doubt in my mind.
then she said that after that experience... she called her pastor... oh no.. and waited a day for him to come. and the next day she prayed and said, Heavenly Father, whoever you send to me, my Pastor, the hermanas, that's where i will know that i need to go. GUYS. the Pastor never went to her house. Me and Hermana Beatty showed up. and she's getting baptized on Saturday. with her kids. AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY AHHHH.
this is the Lord's work. He loves us. this is the true church. it makes us SO HAPPY! happy happy happy happy happy happy that's my favorite word in case you didn't know. well happy.. and tender. those two. good words.
i hope you're not asleep. i hope that made sense. i love you.
hermana wheat
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